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I'm looking over the remainder of the poetic forms poetry I have and have to conclude it's just:
a) too much! and
b) not really themed for the interests of my flist here therefore
c) meh.

Letters A-C will stand, but I may or may not continue posting the remainder for general reading lest they merely clog up the works.

It seems to me that this would be a grand time to go ahead and move on to the Doctor!

The end of poetic forms starting with the letter C! Hope you enjoy.

Chydedd Fer:
When going to sit, please have a care -
The cat has dibs on every chair.
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Chydedd Hir: Cat Spot
( Definitely there )
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Chydedd Naw Ban: Popsicle-Toes
( We anticipate cold kitty-toes )
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Cyrch a Chwta: Garden Panther
( In jungle depths, this cat mine )
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Cywdd Deuair Hyrion: Green Patch
Early on the seed was sown -
Refreshed lawn of great remown.
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Cywdd Llosgyrnog: Fragrant
( Lavender, the mints and sages )
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Six more - again, wide variety within the forms, but the garden theme uniting them.

Clerihew: Catihews
( A little nod to some of the cats I have known )
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Clogyrnach: Plums
( What a lovesome delight, the plum )
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Common Measure: Gardening Book
( One cannot have too many books )
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Complaint (jeremiad): Lament for Transience
( In but a year the work's undone )
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Couplet, split: Nocturne
( Still until the quietness of night-fall )
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Curtal Sonnet: Washed Away
( roof is pounding, hard rain )
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Six more, mostly small again and with a wide variety.

Chanso: Crocosmia
( leaning remnants gold declare )
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Chant: Beginning
( Praise the Creator of climbing vines )
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Chantey (Shanty): Squintin' Tom
( He's Squintin' Tom, the Captain's cat )
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Choka: Choka Full-a Weeds
( Bindweed, pigweed and horsetail )
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Choriambic: Chickweed
( tenacious and tiny seeds )
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Cinquains: Spring
( Tips of crocus )
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Wow, the letter C is a long one - I've a whopping 24 poems here, each in a different form. Most are pretty short, but it still seems prudent to set them out in readable batches so I'll go with four sets of 6 apiece. All types here, enjoy the buffet - still mostly cat and garden themed.

Cancione (canzo): Order
( Lined up tulips )
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Capitola: It Figures
( If only you had seen it when! )
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Carole: Silver Frost and Candlelight
( It is God's blessing we're in His sight )
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Casbairdne: Pilling the Cat
( Must shun )
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Cautionary Verse: Kit Clause
I had a friend who thought it amusing when his kittens climbed his legs...at first.
( Claws tiny as velcro )

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Cento: For Want of a Cottage and Picket Fence
This works a bit like 'found' poetry - from P.G. Wodehouse
( A distinctly fruity concern )

-

And one more dose to finish off this letter, gardening themed.

Bref Double: Shrublets
( Whomever says so lies )
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Bucolic: Country Flowers
( buckets of roses that have no scent )
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Burns Stanza: Glass
( So bright your eye and brown your crest )
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Byr a Thoddaid: Trimming Grapes
( Across their shriveled remnants drape )
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Four more!

Bestiary: The Crastinpro
( When walking, it swerves )
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Blues Stanza: Cat Hair Blues
( The cat was drinking from my cup )
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Blues Sonnet: Squirrel Blues
( emptyin' my feeder )
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Bob and Wheel: King Alfred Daffodils
( Nodding nobly in Narcissus )
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More experimentation with poetic forms - I've a dozen for B, four per set, on cats and gardens. I have an exceptional liking for the greenhouse one here.

Backwoods Boast: Pete
( He's the pinnacle of catness )
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Ballade: Greenhouse Seasons
( Beneath the glass a waiting green )
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Barzeletta (in Blank Verse): Catmint
( Ambrosia of the gods of felinity )
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Benison: Blessing for the Garden
( That our eyes should not lack beauty )
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The other half of forms beginning with the letter A, very brief bits.

Alexandrine Couplet:
Behold the cat who curls beneath my sleeping child's afghan,
Deduce the one most sweet with sighs, contentment's chosen one.
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Amphigory:
( Cat pie )
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Anagram:
Beaded dew drop…
Weed-pod bed, dear.
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Antiphon: The Purpose
( It's all about her )
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Awdl Gywydd: Catfood
( Hunkering over her bowl )
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Poetic forms are rather like little word puzzles to me, and Lewis Turco's Book of Forms is the ultimate handbook for anyone who likes to play with them. I've taken to working my way through all the forms alphabetically (well, skipping the really looong ones like "comic opera" that is), and will share a few of them here. I chose the themes of cats and gardens when I set out, and for the most part I've continued on those lines.

Acrostic: Green Tiger
( Green eyes, green leaves )
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Adonic line:
Curvature query
Whiskery weary.

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Ae Freislighe: Catspaw
( In velvet )
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Alba (a song for dawn)
( makes all nightsongs dim )
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Alcaic: Tuna
( O feline huntress )
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